By David Futrelle
Red Pill dudes agree that to be a true alpha male, you need to dominate the women in your life. Apparently the same rule applies to man’s best friend as well: Alpha males need to be the alpha dog to their own dogs — even if (especially if) these dogs are teenie-weenie cutie-wooties.
You sinply cannot allow your dog to walk all over you (perhaps literally), no matter if it’s a hulking rottweiler or an itsy-bitsty baby-wabie, the Red Pill Redditor calling himself Whisper warned his fellow would-be alphas in a classic post on the Red Pill subreddit.
“Just like any other canine,” he wrote,
small breed dogs need training, discipline and exercise. The dog must be taught to walk at a heel, sit, down and stay on command. Yet the major problem owners have is to recognize that all dogs need to work to earn food, praise and treats.
The trouble comes when owners break frame and give their tiny dogs unearned affection.
It has been my experience that small breed dogs are often lavished with affection, food and treats for no other reason except that they are small and cute.
Well, technically, dogs are “lavished” with food because they need it to live and starving your pets is animal abuse, but anyhoo, Whisper wants us to know that too much of this sort of coddling makes your tiny dog think you’re a big pussy.
Dogs do not understand this. In fact it makes them mentally ill. They interpret this cascade of affection without reason as submissive puppy-like behavior from their owners.
Uh oh.
In turn, they attempt to dominate and control their puppy/owners which can lead to aggression, separation anxiety and a host of neurotic behaviors.
Whisper then laid down the rules for TOTALLY DOMINATING your tiny dog.
1) If your dog sleeps in the bed with you, stop it. Now.
2) Teach your dog to walk at proper heel. Do not carry your dog. His paws are for walking.
3) Nothing in life is free. Have your dog work for food, rewards and especially affection.
4) Do not tolerate bad dog behavior because your dog is small. Consistently enforce all your commands.
Huh. What if you like having your dog sleep in bed with you?
I mean, yes, it’s good for dogs to have at least some rudimentary training and discipline and yes, this will make the dog feel more secure. But, damn, dude, spending your whole life worrying about breaking frame with your toy poodle? And being a jerk to a tiny creature who depends on you for everything? Just saying.
And now is the time in the post where I put up pictures of giant men with tiny dogs.
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Our best friend died in a car wreck a little over a year ago, but we took in her elderly white Alsatian….sweet sweet loving addition to our cat-centric household….but….and all apologies offered…and I never seem to catch an open thread when it’s active….and I’ve been biting my tongue waiting for the right moment to speak up, but I love you all and I have something I wanna wanna share! So please forgive me.
First off….Most of you are like, Singerdog? OK, I’ve posted on occasion, but I rarely catch the convo when it’s active, so mostly I lurk….
Anyway! At the ripe age of 53, after 50 odd years of confusion and pretending and mastering how to be male in America, I figured out that I’m female.
That, in itself, was amazingly freeing….Every move I made for years, every time I spoke(especially to a male), was controlled by me to appear masculine….this was even as I spent my life as a (relatively) feminine guy…..Now! I don’t have to “walk like a man, talk like a man”
Best part….lovely wife of 19 years is fully behind me…FB friends from the past are with me…spoke to my Dad last week, and he told me he always knew there was something to me that was hidden…and he’s with me…I was terrified to talk to him…lol, I came out on FB late July, but didn’t have the guts to call him till last week.
I feel I should break this into 2 posts….and my apologies to all, but I have more..lol!
Part two!
I has been an amazing few months…
I haven’t truly come out as trans at work yet, except to a few…not sure why that is a sticking point for me. I work for RiteAid, and it does worry me that some of my customers may be confused, offended, angry, etc…
I’m still working out finding a doctor to prescribe the HRT….I’m new to this, but working it out, and hopefully soon my body will start looking a little more like what I see in my mind….
Got my ears pierced today the old-fashioned way–by a 20yr old with a piercing gun at the mall..lol. Growing my hair out….looking forward to the future!
Apolgies again, and thank you all for being who you are!
Maryland (formerly Sean) aka Singerdog
One last post, now that I got THAT out of my system…there are some amazing thoughts on dog behavior, and dog/people behavior here. Some I agree with, some I don’t, and some that really make me think.
I’m a cat person, and I grew up in a mostly cat family, but with many dogs. As you generally don’t train a cat, neither did the dogs get much training….the ‘smartest’ dogs grew into “wonderful” dogs…the the others…not so much. Obviously not their fault, but it reinforced me as a cat-person, and prejudiced me against most dogs.
Might be time to mention…”Singerdog” is from a wolf I raised…sweet loving caring dog(please do not take this as condoning wolves as pets…I had a great experience…it doesn’t usually work out that way for wolf or human)…. She was not named for her song, but for the sewing machine sound she mad as a pup…”rrraaarraaarraaarraaa)!
Yea…I honestly don’t think we’ll get another dog after our old lady dies, unless wife and I carefully read everything written above!
That said…I have never been comfortable with the concept: you must dominate! Guess I’m better off with cats.
off-topic, I need some help! I saw a headline for a report purportedly showing the Turkish army bombing Kurdistan, but now I’m being told the footage is actually from Kentucky….
THIS IS THE LOST FOOTAGE OF THE BOWLING GREEN MASSACRE, STOLEN AND HIDDEN BY THE (((DEEP STATE)))!!!
now I can’t find the article anymore….
anyone else seen it???
I think my paranoia is acting up again….
Eddie….not sure what video you saw, but my eyes were opened by the video of that poor kid in his Charger backing up after people flew through the air at his car in Charlottesville…
I;m sorry….even though I made the joke, I can’t get the image out of my head….it was meant to be a joke about manipulated video, but Charlottesville is not ..no…I am so sorry… David, you can delete that….I am so so sorry…
Congratulations, Singerdog, both on finding your true self and on having loving, accepting people around you!
La Maria, my wife saved me first 19 years ago, as I was struggling to escape a terribly toxic marriage…and, with her support, we were ready to face this alone. The support has been wonderful! And those who might have problems? They have silently unfriended me on FB(i think 3 did), or are keeping it to themselves.
Congrats on coming out, Singerdog! Wish you all the luck!
@Singerdog
Congratulations on figuring out your identity. May you have good luck with the rest of your transition and with your life.
I’m still figuring out my gender, and I’m so happy for you that you’ve found yours.
@Big Titty Demon,
Technically Kitbull is a Pixar film, since it was made under their SparksShorts program (basically them giving certain employees a limited budget and a set time frame to make whatever story they so desire to find new storytelling talent). From what I’ve read online, the genesis for the short was cat videos, and things went from there. Not sure where the pit came from; I haven’t yet watched the ‘Making of…’ video, so it could be explained there.
But while we’re discussing dogs and their actual needs, a book/movie question. Has anyone here read/seen Life with Marley, about a couple living with a ‘difficult’ dog? I haven’t, but I’ve read some criticism (from dog trainers) to the effect that a lot of Marley’s problems could have been avoided – or at least alleviated – if his owner had taken time to give him some basic training in what was expected of him. I was wondering if that was a fair critique of the story or not. Anyone know?
@Naglfar I spent most of my life feeling I was my own unique gender, and I guess that’s all we truly are. What has freed me, is less that I found my gender, but more that I am free of pretending that I am a certain gender. And if your gender is hard to pin down, well, maybe it shouldn’t be pinned…let it float… It will land somewhere, and when it does, it does.
…could be the low resolution of the image, but I’m pretty sure the third guy from the top is playing with a kitten rather than a puppy.
Not complaining, cats on leashes are adorable:
Voted on Monday in the Canuckian general. Pleasant experience, was in and out in a jiff. Voted strategically as I am wont to do: a popular Liberal incumbent in a riding (Don Valley West) with far too much Tory wealth to risk splitting the left vote.
Gonna try and find the local NDP Dem Socialist caucus. It needs traction around here.
@Singerdog
Congrats on coming out! I’m happy for you and hoping you stay safe! Please be sure to keep good company and emotional support in case you need it. There are assholes out there.
@Dvärghundspossen
Soooo what you are saying is that yip-demons are more likely to suffer from bagel-man-syndrome, and are more prone to biting because they feel threatened by big creatures? I guess that could make sense. I still resent them for biting me over their own perceptions, though.
Bit of an off-topic, but can I get some background on Canadian politics at the moment? I was under the impression that conservatives didn’t really stand a chance ever since Trudeau was first elected. I was also under the impression he’s a bit of a hypocritical liberal, who is in favor of tar sands and selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, but I haven’t read much about Canadian politics.
Last I remember Canadian politics reaching this far south was when you had a major who routinely did crack and kept on getting into scandals.
@Diego Duarte
That was the case last year. This year, however, brought us the magic of…
*DUN DUN DUN*
ESS-ENN-SEE-LAVALIN! *thunderclap*
…which was overblown by Canada’s media and milked by Trudeau’s opposition for two months in February and March, which was just enough to take the sheen off him and bring the Tories up.
Blackface didn’t help him.
If I might take a moment to sound off on how much I loathe the framing of Canada’s political debate, one of the more alienating things (at least to me, though I doubt I’m alone) is how it’s carried out as a bunch of tax gimmicks and piecemeal programs rather than any overarching vision of what they look at for Canada, particularly on the part of the ostensibly “left-wing” parties. Tax credits here. Rebates there. There’s never any coherence to any of them and they seem like measures meant to placate people in lieu of actually standing and fighting for something. The Wynne Liberals in Ontario did this as well, as did Horvath’s NDP.
Cripes, have some principles and freakin’ articulate them, guys. Enough with the goodie-bag concept of campaigning.
@Singerdog:
Congratulations, and let the genders fall where they may!
RE: Cats on Leashes
Allow me to contribute
Well, raising dogs seems to be fairly complicated, based on everyone’s posts. Then again, I’ve been a lifetime cat person. Like Singerdog, I have a problem with the idea that you’ve got to dominate the dog.
Years ago, I took care of a relative’s Yorkie in an emergency situation. For two weeks. I really didn’t enjoy being around this dog, but I tried to play with him, and give him affection and attention. He was just too hyper and yappy for my taste.
He ate cooked white rice mixed with lamb baby food, plus a vitamin supplement, because he had so many food allergies and intolerances.
I had 3 cats at the time. One cat hated the Yorkie, and would corner him, then swipe at him, and make threatening noises. She never laid a paw on him, though.
@Singerdog, congratulations!
Dogs do need a certain amount of training – not the same as discipline – to move comfortably and calmly through the world. Where I work we see plenty of small dogs whose owners haven’t bothered to work with them at all, and they can be the worst, most miserable little shits to do anything with.
@Dormousing it
Agreed, I’m also not a dog person, though I’ve had both cats and dogs. Dogs seem to be too energetic and high maintenance. Sure it’s nice to play with them, but they’ll wear you out soon enough. I’d rather not take responsibility for another living creature that is going to be dependent on me not fucking up and/or failing to meet its physical and emotional needs.
Funny you should mention that, my sister has a pittie that is beyond rambunctious and always getting into trouble, yet he has the most sensitive stomach ever.
Last xmas he kept harassing me to give him some mildly spiced turkey and then we had to immediately haul ass to the veterinarian because he started vomiting blood.
Apparently he can’t handle spices of any kind.
Did that stop him from harassing me for turkey every other day after? Nope.
EDIT: I dunno how to attach images, sorry guys.
@Tovius
Awws, kitteh in the hoodeh! 😀
As for dogs, frankly I have no idea how people keep big dogs in cities. But for the love of Pete, if you’re gonna keep them, please train them. Lookin’ your way, Maryland Uncle’s family….
Seriously, they have these two gigantic retrievers that are so poorly behaved that they will not hesitate to go for any food that is nearby. I made the mistake of putting down grocery bags in the front hall… thankfully I pulled it away in time before stuff went everywhere.
@ Weird (and tired of trumplings) Eddie
I know the exact story you refer to. I spend way too much time reading all the rational news I can. (NYT, AP, WaPo, Reuters, and CNN for the fun bits).
Edit: You’re not paranoid, at least in this instance 😉
Link broken: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/business/media/turkey-syria-kentucky-gun-range.html
My cousin dog got kicked out of obedience school because he bite the trainer. He didn’t break the skin or anything. He just nipped at him because he’s a very anxious boi and has terrible separation anxiety when his day to day life gets disrupted. After that he got put on some anti anxiety medication and he’s doing better.